Never-before-heard 911 call reveals chilling details, moments before children in California torture house were rescued

The vow renewals of David and Louise Turpin in Las Vegas, pictured here with their 13 children in 2015, were one of the few times the children were allowed to leave the home. (Elvis Chapel via Facebook)

When the 17-year-old daughter of David and Louise Turpin called 911 to report her abusive parents and the California house of horrors she grew up in, she struggled to tell the dispatcher where she lived.

“I’ve never been out. I don’t go out much, so I don’t know any of the streets or anything,” she can be heard saying.

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“I live in a family of 15 people and my parents are abusive. They abuse us, and my two little sisters right now are chained up.”

The never-before-heard 911 call reveals chilling details of the 13 Turpin children’s lives and the moments that led to their release and safety. It was obtained by ABC News on Thursday.

David and Louise Turpin, the California parents who pleaded guilty to 14 felony counts of torture, abuse, child endangerment and false-imprisonment, will face sentencing Friday. Their plea deal carries guaranteed sentences of 25 years to life in prison.

David Turpin, right, and wife, Louise, left, listen to the judge, along with attorney Allison Lowe, during a courtroom hearing on Feb. 22, 2019, in Riverside, Calif. (Jae C. Hong/AP)

The two made national headlines after they were arrested in January 2018 and accused of starving, shackling and torturing all but one of their children aged 2 to 29. Investigators testified that children were also locked in cages, choked, tossed down stairs and beaten with switches.

“This is among the worst, most aggravated child abuse cases that I have ever seen or been involved in in my career,” Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin said in February.

The morning the teenager, who the Daily News is not identifying because she is a victim of abuse, made the 911 call, the dispatcher asked her how many of her siblings were tied up.

The 'House of Horrors' that housed the 13 abused Turpin children

During the 20-minute call, she also noted that she sometimes woke up and felt she “can’t breathe because how dirty the house is." She said her mom would lie to people that they were either home-schooled or in private school, before admitting that she didn’t know much about her.

“She doesn’t like us. She doesn’t spend time with us ever,” the teenager said.